Daydream and Homido

Daydream program confirmed: Mobile VR has a bright future!

The Daydreamprogram should provide better quality content. Google launched a smartphone and joined the circle of designers/passive headset makers by offering its own headset.

About the Daydream program: it is a set of certifications to ensure the optimal experience for mobile virtual reality. These certifications include multiple elements where the principal one is the smartphone: it must be equipped with an AMOLED display that supports a low-persistence mode, and it must also come with the S821 from Qualcom. For the moment, only the Pixel is compatible.

The Daydream platform is promising but it is still at an early stage: aside from the Pixel, none of the current smartphones are compatible on the contents side, and the platform is still in development. Google has an entire ecosystem to build, but it is a very good initiative that we support!

Our opinion on the Daydream View headset: it looks cool, however Google has made many compromises:

There are no settings; you have to use it with glasses on, which leads us to believe that the lenses are positioned far away from the eyes, thus reducing the immersive effect; there is no interpupillary adjustment… A test is due for proper judgement!

For the moment, only the owners of the Pixel smartphones (Pixel and XL) can use the headset, and with that, it does not provide access to the phone’s camera, which can be very useful for AR apps, or for certain projects (see our article on positional tracking).

Our opinion on the Daydream gamepad: very interesting. We hope that Daydream SDK will soon integrate the positional tracking. Have a look at the Pulse Project, which is currently on a proprietary SDK (the Daydream compatibility could be added in the future).

Homido remains the best universal virtual reality headset that provides comfort, offers all the necessary settings (focal length and interpupillary distance), and is compatible with all current Android and iPhone smartphones.

(For those of you who are the most experienced: Homido is even compatible with the Gear platform, see the tutorial.)

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Homido is an enterprise with a team of professionals experienced in the fields of virtual reality, mobile app development, 3D cinema, product design, manufacturing and logistics.
Homido's headquarters are in Lille, North of France, and it also has a foothold in China, in the Shanghai area. From the high-end French product design and app development to the hardware production in China, the entire Homido product chain is held to an exceptionally high standard to bring quality and reliability to users.